diff --git a/message/messages.php b/message/messages.php
index ddff8c52c62..8a2b33bf5a8 100644
--- a/message/messages.php
+++ b/message/messages.php
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
 <html <?php echo $direction ?>>
   <head>
-    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $encoding ?>" />';
+    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo $encoding ?>" />
   </head>
   <body class="message course-1" id="message-messages">
